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De Wereldmachten podcast
1.
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
by:
Catherine Belton
4.17 avg rating β 9,023 ratings
2.
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
by:
Anna Fifield
4.12 avg rating β 5,580 ratings
3.
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
by:
Paul Kenyon
4.42 avg rating β 2,513 ratings
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.43 avg rating β 12,040 ratings
5.
Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Dispatch Books)
by:
Nick Turse
3.69 avg rating β 87 ratings
6.
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earthβs Resources
by:
Javier Blas
4.33 avg rating β 11,075 ratings
7.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by:
Nicole Perlroth
4.32 avg rating β 10,655 ratings
8.
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
by:
Mary Elise Sarotte
4.27 avg rating β 983 ratings
9.
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by:
Tim Marshall
4.19 avg rating β 110,345 ratings
10.
War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics
by:
Bleddyn E. Bowen
3.88 avg rating β 33 ratings
11.
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
by:
Ben Rhodes
4.20 avg rating β 4,824 ratings
12.
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
by:
Oliver Bullough
4.19 avg rating β 6,773 ratings
13.
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
by:
Evan Osnos
4.25 avg rating β 8,717 ratings
14.
Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity
by:
Daniel Deudney
3.62 avg rating β 71 ratings
15.
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
by:
Kim Ghattas
4.40 avg rating β 5,433 ratings
16.
The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War
by:
Brendan Green
3.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
17.
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
by:
Geoffrey Cain
4.22 avg rating β 1,051 ratings
18.
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by:
Daniel Immerwahr
4.46 avg rating β 19,121 ratings
19.
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
by:
Spencer Ackerman
4.12 avg rating β 2,166 ratings
20.
We Need to Talk About Putin: Why the West Gets Him Wrong, and How to Get Him Right
by:
Mark Galeotti
3.80 avg rating β 2,234 ratings
21.
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by:
Steve Coll
4.31 avg rating β 18,331 ratings
22.
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
by:
Steve Coll
4.21 avg rating β 4,312 ratings
23.
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
by:
John J. Mearsheimer
4.06 avg rating β 3,583 ratings
24.
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
by:
Sathnam Sanghera
4.09 avg rating β 8,329 ratings
25.
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
by:
Serhii Plokhy
4.27 avg rating β 7,526 ratings
26.
Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
by:
Nicholas Shaxson
3.88 avg rating β 142 ratings
27.
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by:
Thomas Rid
4.14 avg rating β 1,450 ratings
28.
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
by:
Timothy Mitchell
4.13 avg rating β 927 ratings
29.
1946: The Making of the Modern World
by:
Victor Sebestyen
4.20 avg rating β 728 ratings
30.
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by:
Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating β 13,387 ratings
31.
Interpol: Issues in World Crime and International Justice
by:
Michael Fooner
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
32.
Diplomacy
by:
Henry Kissinger
4.25 avg rating β 9,163 ratings
33.
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
by:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
4.26 avg rating β 4,724 ratings
34.
Beter wordt het niet: Een reis door het Habsburgse Rijk en de Europese Unie
by:
Caroline de Gruyter
3.94 avg rating β 1,328 ratings
35.
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
by:
Sarah Chayes
4.11 avg rating β 1,050 ratings
36.
Cashless: China's Digital Currency Revolution
by:
Richard Turrin
4.30 avg rating β 141 ratings
37.
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
by:
Fred Kaplan
4.07 avg rating β 986 ratings
38.
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Attack on the West
by:
Luke Harding
3.91 avg rating β 1,280 ratings
39.
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by:
Anne Applebaum
3.90 avg rating β 16,808 ratings
40.
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
by:
Christina Lamb
4.64 avg rating β 4,091 ratings
41.
China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
by:
Peter Martin
4.29 avg rating β 360 ratings
42.
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
by:
David Patrikarakos
4.09 avg rating β 393 ratings
43.
The Best and the Brightest
by:
David Halberstam
4.27 avg rating β 12,645 ratings
44.
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
by:
Frank DikΓΆtter
3.69 avg rating β 2,636 ratings
45.
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
by:
Frank DikΓΆtter
4.07 avg rating β 4,974 ratings
46.
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
by:
Frank DikΓΆtter
4.13 avg rating β 2,581 ratings
47.
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
by:
Frank DikΓΆtter
4.06 avg rating β 1,956 ratings
48.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating β 89,906 ratings
49.
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.37 avg rating β 10,275 ratings
50.
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by:
Steven Levitsky
4.16 avg rating β 30,320 ratings
51.
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
by:
Steven Lee Myers
4.07 avg rating β 5,471 ratings
52.
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
by:
Jason F. Stanley
4.23 avg rating β 12,621 ratings
53.
Grensstreken: Waarom grenzen liggen waar ze liggen
by:
Milo van Bokkum
4.12 avg rating β 260 ratings
54.
American Diplomacy: A History
by:
Robert H. Ferrell
4.27 avg rating β 11 ratings
55.
American Diplomacy
by:
George F. Kennan
4.06 avg rating β 678 ratings
56.
Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century
by:
Benjamin Allen Coates
4.17 avg rating β 18 ratings
57.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,213 ratings
58.
An Insider's Guide to the UN
by:
Linda Fasulo
3.48 avg rating β 242 ratings
59.
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
by:
Peter Pomerantsev
3.97 avg rating β 11,441 ratings
60.
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
by:
Peter Pomerantsev
4.04 avg rating β 4,814 ratings
61.
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
by:
Karen Elliott House
3.78 avg rating β 1,426 ratings
62.
Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR (Geopolitics in the 21st Century)
by:
Bruce Riedel
4.14 avg rating β 244 ratings
63.
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
by:
Ben Hubbard
4.15 avg rating β 3,776 ratings
64.
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
by:
Louisa Lim
4.25 avg rating β 1,394 ratings
65.
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
by:
David D. Kirkpatrick
4.31 avg rating β 539 ratings
66.
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
by:
Margaret MacMillan
4.13 avg rating β 14,816 ratings
67.
The Vietnam War: A Concise International History
by:
Mark Atwood Lawrence
3.91 avg rating β 677 ratings
68.
The Korean War
by:
Max Hastings
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3,581 ratings
69.
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975
by:
Max Hastings
4.31 avg rating β 7,317 ratings
70.
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by:
Serhii Plokhy
4.23 avg rating β 1,519 ratings
71.
The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
by:
William Langewiesche
3.62 avg rating β 395 ratings
72.
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
by:
Adam Tooze
3.83 avg rating β 1,349 ratings
73.
The Scramble for African Oil: Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa's Natural Resources (New Politics, Progressive Policy
by:
Douglas A. Yates
3.92 avg rating β 13 ratings
74.
Blood and Diamonds: Germanyβs Imperial Ambitions in Africa
by:
Steven Press
4.07 avg rating β 15 ratings
75.
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by:
Tom Burgis
4.05 avg rating β 2,733 ratings
76.
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
by:
GΓ©rard Prunier
4.09 avg rating β 783 ratings
77.
Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
by:
Samantha Power
4.35 avg rating β 1,673 ratings
78.
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace
by:
Kofi Annan
3.98 avg rating β 1,186 ratings
79.
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britainβs Political Class
by:
Tim Shipman
4.30 avg rating β 2,881 ratings
80.
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
by:
Peter Hopkirk
4.33 avg rating β 8,764 ratings
81.
Endgame: The Betrayal And Fall Of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
by:
David Rohde
4.44 avg rating β 452 ratings
82.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by:
David Graeber
4.21 avg rating β 25,619 ratings
83.
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
by:
Astra Taylor
4.20 avg rating β 701 ratings
84.
Russian Hybrid Warfare: Understanding the new way of war
by:
Mark Galeotti
3.93 avg rating β 45 ratings
85.
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
by:
Tom Burgis
3.80 avg rating β 3,973 ratings
86.
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
by:
Jason K. Stearns
4.18 avg rating β 5,456 ratings
87.
The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea
by:
Hannah Appel
4.29 avg rating β 45 ratings
88.
The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
by:
Peter H. Wilson
3.89 avg rating β 2,038 ratings
89.
Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
by:
Robert W. Harms
4.02 avg rating β 86 ratings
90.
The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square
by:
Steven A. Cook
3.71 avg rating β 118 ratings
91.
Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War
by:
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
4.16 avg rating β 85 ratings
92.
Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria
by:
Nikolaos van Dam
3.86 avg rating β 338 ratings
93.
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
by:
Antony Beevor
3.92 avg rating β 7,043 ratings
94.
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
by:
Javier Cercas
4.09 avg rating β 3,171 ratings
95.
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
by:
David Gerard
3.96 avg rating β 1,193 ratings
96.
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
by:
Peter Zeihan
4.33 avg rating β 5,503 ratings
97.
The Undersea Network
by:
Nicole Starosielski
3.87 avg rating β 149 ratings
98.
The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War
by:
Antonio J. MΓ©ndez
3.93 avg rating β 3,181 ratings
99.
Germany's Russia problem: The struggle for balance in Europe
by:
John Lough
4.14 avg rating β 57 ratings
100.
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
by:
Mark Galeotti
3.84 avg rating β 436 ratings